Turbulence and Instabilities in Fluids and Plasmas
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2020) | Viewed by 2141
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The aim of this Special Issue is to present recent achievements in the dynamics of turbulent fluids and plasma and their interplay with instabilities. This kind of phenomenon is found in various natural contexts and in different regimes, for instance, in the Earth's magnetosphere, where the establishment of a turbulent state follows Kelvin–Helmholtz or tearing instabilities; in the solar wind plasma, where turbulent fluctuations at ion scales can generate plasma micro-instabilities and out-of-equilibrium features; or in the solar atmosphere, where new observations and theoretical modeling are revealing complex turbulent dynamics, strongly influenced by the presence of inhomogeneities in the background medium and complex magnetic topologies. These processes can strongly affect the transport of energetic particles, with repercussions on space weather predictions. They can provide clues that are useful to singling out the most relevant dissipative processes that occur in low-collisional plasmas.
This Special Issue will gather original research on the outlined topics, as well as review papers, with applications to both plasma and fluid contexts. Studies based on theoretical approaches, both analytical and/or numerical, as well as on data analysis will be included.
Prof. Dr. Francesco Malara
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- turbulence
- instabilities
- space plasmas
- geophysical fluids
- numerical simulations
